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The Windows Management User Group

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Welcome to the home of the Windows Management User Group

The Windows Management User Group (WMUG), was formed by IT Systems Management professionals passionate about everything to do with managing the Windows platform.

The primary goal of the group is to simply bring together other like-minded Professionals to share hints, tips and experiences.

We will be arranging regular meetings at various locations across the UK so we can meet as many people face to face to talk about Windows Management tools and procedures, get problems answered, and allow you to get advice from industry leaders, specialists and product vendors.

Please feel free to sign up and join our community, and watch this space for news of forthcoming events.

Above all remember that this is YOUR user group.

The website was upgraded in May 2008, and has changed a fair bit. It seems very customisable, and we're keen to redesign the site as best we can over the coming months.

Some pointers to using the new website:

There's a lot for us to explore in Community Explorer 2008, for starters a whole new way of organising information in the Media area, and Groups that allow us to bunch together related information, lots more to mess around with. We'll keep you posted as we modify the site!

Groups

Click here to vist the Groups page

We've already created a few groups, here are few direct links to get your started:

WMUG Events

WMUG Polling Station

WMUG Reviews

WMUG Articles

WMUG ConfigMgr IBCM Group

WMUG Team

Site Activity

Most Recent Content

  • VMWare countering?

    Article up on The Register about VMWare http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/vmware_q2_2008_earnings/ Cut through all the fancy figures, and diatribe and you get to what I think is the tucked away jewel in this story (for VMWare) ... ESXi (the light-weight version) will be free at the next release. And, what's the odds that the ESXi light-weight...

  • SMS Site Assignment

    Q. The other day I was asked about why (in a single forest, multiple domain environment with separate SMS hierarchies in each domain) does a SMS client get assigned to an SMS site in the wrong domain. A. If you have multiple domains in your forest, and multiple independent SMS hierarchies, although the schema is extended for your entire forest, each...

  • [Win OS] Free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Vista SP1 until March 18, 2009

    Got this through from Microsoft which hopefully some of you may find useful: Background Free, unlimited installation and compatibility support is now available for all worldwide customers using Windows Vista SP1, until March 18, 2009. Telephone support is available worldwide. Some countries also offer Chat and Email support. Effective dates From now...

  • Public Documentation

    Great place to start learning up on IBCM, is the ConfigMgr Documentation Library Carol Bailey @ Microsoft has written a lot of helpful stuff on IBCM, here are two articles (pointed out by Rod Trent, thanks!) Introduction to Internet-based Client Management in Configuration Manager 2007 Now Is The Time – To Brush-Up On Your PKI Very handy article...

  • Configuration Manager 2007 - Native Mode - IBCM support

    Guys, Looking to share knowledge with anyone that has implemented IBCM for Configuration Manager 2007. Get in touch if you want to bounce ideas around and learn from each other (yes you guessed, initially i'm looking for someone that has been through the pain barrier so I can glean some tips, as well as share what I find that's not documented...

  • Looking for a UK based ConfigMgr admin

    Isn't it funny, as that saying goes, you wait around for a bus and three come along at once. Well I've not been waiting for a bus, instead I've been waiting around for some exceptional ConfigMgr projects to get stuck in too. I'm taken care of now, but wonder if there are any UK ConfigMgr consultants\contractors out there that are twiddling...

  • WMUG Event on the 15th of July 2008

    I just cannot believe it was only last Tuesday that we had the WMUG meeting take place. The days since just seem to have slide by, with hardly a chance to come up for air and jump on to the WMUG site. A big thank you to all that attended. A good time was had by all it seems, with great feedback on what you want to do at these events. We had (for us...

  • [vPro] An exciting new technology…

    Intel’s vPro technology is a new systems management technology built into the Centrino 2 (desktops) and Core 2 (laptops) chips providing powerful security and manageability features such as: Management of machines including hardware and software inventory, remote access, etc. regardless of the state of the machine (so even if the OS won't boot,...

  • [Rant] Why is nothing built to last these days and why has TRUE customer service died?

    I’ve recently had two VERY expensive failures of items in my life that I thought would have lasted a LOT longer than they have namely my car and my personal laptop. I’m still waiting to hear back from Hyundai about my car so I won’t post the story here for now. About 3 ½ years ago I needed a laptop to help me with a major community-related project I...

  • [Rant] New [Rant] Tag

    I’ve decided to create the new “[Rant]” tag to file things under I’m going to blog about that really get on my goat – first post coming soon…

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